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7 Wonders of the Ancient World (exe)

You are about to embark on a journey no one has taken before. It begins at the foot of The Great Pyramid of Giza and continues through the Egyptian sands to the mysterious Hanging Gardens of Babylon. You'll travel through the enchanting Mediterranean islands to the glory of ancient Greece...

Tags: Wonder, Cornerstone

Software downloads 2006-11-24

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Make Customer Experience a Cornerstone of Your Revenue Strategy

View this BNET Webcast to hear industry expert Jeffery Tarter, Executive Director of the Association of Support Professionals ASP, share how leading companies are investing in support and services to deliver a better customer experience, which translates to customer loyalty and reoccurring revenue. Also, listen as Services Management Consultant Robert...

Tags: Strategy, Revenue, Citrix Systems Inc., Customer Experience, Operational Accounting, Finance

Webcasts 2008-07-09

Alabama's Broadband Tide

BROADBAND INITIATIVE – If you really want anywhere access to the Internet, you understand the value and you'll pay for it. A DirecWay dish on an RV at Gulf State Park, on the so-called "Redneck Riviera," at Orange Beach, Alabama. ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – No more...

Tags: Initiative, Broadband, Alabama, DirecWay, RV, Johnson, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, TVs, Telecommunications, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Microsoft's ODF support looks good ... but on paper only

Microsoft's pledge to support ODF as a native file format in Office 2007 SP2 is good news for OpenOffice – but on paper only. The devil is in the details – and Microsoft hasn't spelled out precisely how or if its ODF 1.1 implementation will support macros...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-22

The four horsemen of SaaS

Taleo's acquisition of Vurv, announced today, is a clear play by the SaaS vendor for breakout leadership of the people management sector — one of the hottest segments of the enterprise SaaS landscape, populated by fast-growing startups such as recent Nasdaq entrant SuccessFactors along with privately held Authoria, Cornerstone OnDemand,...

Tags: Revenue, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Taleo Corp., Vurv, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-06

Why I didn't like "Microhoo"

Yesterday was not a good day to be Jerry Yang. A year after returning to the helm of the company he co-founded, Yang found himself faced with an unsolicited bid from Microsoft, one that offered to pay a 50% premimum over the price of Yahoo stock. Though not ruling the...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Developer Orientation, Team Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, DVR, Management, Investment, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-06

Microsoft lands Democratic National Convention, ties Google in convention race

Microsoft and Google duke it out on multiple fronts: Search, applications, the Web and now political conventions. Microsoft said Monday that it will be the official software and "HD Web content provider" for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. For those of you keeping score at home, Google announced...

Tags: Software, Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Convention, Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-28

The Tangled Web of Google Health - Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies

Several prominent web cornerstone firms, like Google and Microsoft, are pushing a system that would allow consumers' access to Personal Health Records. The medical ARM industry could both benefit and suffer by this move. The World Wide Web and the major international corporations that help users organize the way they...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Health Care, Medical Record, Personal Health Record, Kaulkin Ginsberg, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2008-03-20

Putting together a portable office - MKII

Over the weekend I decided that it was time to revamp my 'portable office' USB flash drive.  I put this together nearly two years ago and it has served me well in that time, acting as a base of operations when I'm away from my main PC.  While some of the...

Tags: USB Flash Drive, Office, Dmailer, PortableApps.com Suite, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Community Health Nonprofit Tackles Flagging Productivity With New Server Deployment

North Hudson Community Action Corporation is a cornerstone of health and human services in New Jersey, serving more than 64,000 low-income residents at eight locations spread across three counties. The plan was to replace the servers running Windows Server 2003 with a new application publishing platform. Eden and his team...

Tags: HTTP, Microsoft Windows Server, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Terminal Services, Vertical Industries, Servers, Benefits, Healthcare, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-03-06

(Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite)

(Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite)safely ignited in space?How did toxic fuel get safely ignited in space? Space is a vacuum with no oxygen to enable combustion.RE: (Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite)Just wondering, can anyone explain to me how spaceship/satelite propels itself in space when there is nothing...

Tags: combustion, missile, oxygen, satellite, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

Dark Clouds and Silver Linings

Cloud computing is getting hot, as in hot promises, hot press releases, and some hot contentions about who's platform is going to win the latest battleground in on-demand/SaaS. The answer my friend, is largely blowing in the wind. But not for long…. To be sure, there's a...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Cape Clear Software, On-demand, Vision, Workday, Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Sales Force Management, Strategy, Sales, Management, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-02-15

11 Criteria for Selecting the Best ERP System Replacement

It's no light matter to replace your Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system. By definition, the ERP system is your information backbone and reaches into all areas of your business and value-chain. Replacing it appears to be a difficult and painful process, but done right, it can open unlimited business opportunities....

Tags: ERP System, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-02-13

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating system

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating systemIn the long run, Live services...will not make the big splash everyone is hoping for. Individual consumers may find it useful but Enterprises will move the services back in house. Especially with Open Source providing more and better services that can...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Game players, Internet, Yahoo! acquisition, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, cloud computing, Google Inc., computing, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

Microsoft bends over backwards to prove there's an 'open' in OOXML

Microsoft bends over backwards to prove there's an 'open' in OOXMLEU and OOML[i]For the record, I requested more information from the European Commission regarding exactly how OOXML fits into its latest investigation and got no response.[/i]I emailed the ECIS about their complaint too. Also no responce. However, their web site...

Tags: Open Specification Promise, plug-in, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, Microsoft Office, XML

Discussion threads 2008-01-17

Audio Hijack Pro (zip)

Audio Hijack Pro drastically changes the way you use audio on your computer, giving you the freedom to listen to audio when you want and how you want. Record and enhance any audio with Audio Hijack Pro it's the cornerstone of your digital audio experience. Audio Hijack Pro will allow...

Tags: Audio

Software downloads 2008-01-02

Oracle Secure Backup 10.2 Policy-Based Backup Management

Reliable data protection in the enterprise extends beyond simple tape backup to multi-tiered data protection strategies based on criticality of data, Recovery Time Objectives RTO and retention meeting business and regulatory requirements. Tape media remains the cornerstone of enterprise data protection providing the most affordable, reliable media for long-term backup...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Tape Backup, Backups

White papers 2007-12-01

MSDN Webcast: Unified Communications for Developers: Building Communications Into Your Applications (Level 200)

Microsoft Unified Communications UC is turning the traditionally hardware-oriented communications world into software. Building the Unified Communications platform, with rich APIs and solid tool support, is a cornerstone of that strategy. This webcast gives an overview of what scenarios the UC platform enables and the APIs and software development kits...

Tags: Developer, Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Unified Communications

Webcasts 2007-11-29

HP debuts Automated Operations 1.0

In its post $1.6 billion Opsware acquisition reverie, HP is talking about a new way to do IT operations, and competing with IBM, BMC and CA. The company introduced Automated Operations 1.0 today, which integrates products from HP OpenView, Peregrine, Mercury and Opsware. HP is eschewing the...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Utility Computing, It Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Lokad Desktop Workload Forecasting (zip)

Deliver workload forecasts. Best suited for call centers and staff managers. Too much staff and money is wasted. Too few staff and customers get mad. Scheduling optimization is a cornerstone of profitability. Get the right amount of staff at the right time through workload forecasting. Customizable reports with hour, half-hour...

Tags: Staff, Forecasting, Lokad, Sales Force Management, Sales

Software downloads 2007-11-22